Built to protect the intellectual property that resides in business desktops and laptops, Acronis? Backup & RecoveryT 10 Workstation combines optimized data protection and ease-of-use. It creates an exact disk image of your office workstation and backs up the operating system, applications, key data files and folders.

Acronis? Backup & RecoveryT 10 Workstation comes with flexible scheduling and event-based triggering to cater to the most demanding user environments. With the optional Acronis? Backup & RecoveryT Universal RestoreT module, the operating system, all user data, applications and settings can be restored to dissimilar hardware in a few simple steps, eliminating the need to acquire identical hardware if the machine has to be replaced.

Acronis simplifies system restores. Users can perform self-service recoveries of files and folders in moments without administrator intervention. Even an entire Windows? system can be restored in minutes using the Acronis one-click restore feature.

Top Benefits:
. Flexible backup storage for mobile users. Back up a laptop to a variety of storage devices and locations, including the Acronis? Secure ZoneT, a partition on the laptop.
. Minimize downtime and improve user productivity. With Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, the contents of the hard drive contents including the operating system, applications and data can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.
. Acronis? AdvantageSM support and maintenance program. The Acronis? AdvantageSM program is an enhanced, multi-level subscription-based support and maintenance program. The first year of Acronis Advantage is included in the license price.
. Intuitive user interface and workflow minimizes training requirements. Users can restore files, folders and even their workstation without administrator assistance or extensive training.
. Simplified system migration to new and dissimilar hardware. Restoring to dissimilar hardware can be easily accomplished with optional Acronis? Backup & RecoveryT Universal RestoreT software. Move an old system to a new one, complete with all applications, data and settings and be ready to continue operations in minutes.

Key features and technologies:Backup options
. Compression. Compress backups to optimize your storage space.
. Excluding files during backup. Save storage space and time by excluding non-essential files and folders from backups.
. Dual destination backup. Store backups into two different locations - backup to a local disk and a copy to a network share.
. Splitting backups, automatically or manually. Split backups into volumes to fit media.

Virtualization support
. Converting image backup to a virtual machine. Recover a disk (volume) backup to a new virtual machine of any of the following types: VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer virtual appliance.

Reporting and monitoring
. Local dashboard. Operational overview of the backup and restore processes on a single screen.
. Recording events in Windows Event Log. Store Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 events in Windows Event Logs together with events from other applications. This allows for integration with system management tools like MOM.